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JOURNAL — phase `redfix`

2026-06-17T23:20Z — Bootstrap

Read phase plan + plan.md §6.1/§7/§9 + canon DECISIONS exceptions (lines ~1494–1552). Six canon-sweep failures to investigate. Confirmed cc-ci access, no run in flight, sweep timer next fires 2026-06-21 (3-day window), disk 38G free.

Isolation mechanism understood: runner/nightly_sweep.run_on_tag = abra.recipe_checkout(r, tag) + run_recipe_ci.py RECIPE=<r> CCCI_SKIP_FETCH=1 cold/full. I reproduce each failure by running ONE recipe at a time with no concurrent load.

Starting canonical state notable: mumble canonical IS present (1.0.0+v1.6.870-0, written 20260617T180501Z — during today's nixenv sweep). The canon DECISIONS recorded mumble RED (test_handshake_completes_with_channel_presence). A canonical only gets written on a GREEN cold run on latest → mumble flipped green in a recent run. Strong early evidence for the operator's "mumble passed before" → load flake hypothesis. Must confirm with a clean isolation re-run + check whether the canon-sweep red was under concurrent load.

Next: start M1 investigation. Plan order (cheap/informative first): triage the existing sweep logs on cc-ci to pin the EXACT assertion/error for each (mumble, mattermost-lts restore, gitea app.ini, bluesky routing, discourse compose), then run isolation re-runs. discourse's recorded cause is an UPSTREAM compose defect (sidekiq.depends_on: discourse while service is app) that FATAs before any deploy — that's deterministic, not a load timeout, so it may not even need a long isolation run to confirm; verify the compose at the latest tag directly first.

2026-06-17T23:40Z — M1: discourse isolation run — CANON ROOT-CAUSE WAS WRONG

Ran discourse ALONE on cc-ci (recipe_checkout discourse 0.8.1+3.5.0 + RECIPE=discourse CCCI_SKIP_FETCH=1 cc-ci-run runner/run_recipe_ci.py, log /tmp/redfix-discourse.log).

RESULT: install PASS, upgrade FAIL, backup PASS, restore PASS, custom PASS — the recipe deploys, serves (200 /srv/status), backs up and restores cleanly. NOT a deploy timeout, NOT a 51-min wedge, NOT a deploy FATA. The canon DECISIONS root-cause ("abra app deploy FATAs: service sidekiq depends on undefined service discourse → invalid compose project") is misattributed: that string appears ONLY from the non-fatal prepull docker compose config --images (rc=15, harness logs "skipping (deploy will pull as usual)"). The real abra app deploy is a swarm docker stack deploy, which ignores depends_on entirely → the stack converges (UpdateStatus=completed).

The ONLY failure is the cc-ci upgrade OVERLAY tests/discourse/test_upgrade.py:

test_head_runs_official_image_not_bitnamilegacy — app image is bitnamilegacy/discourse:3.5.0; test demands discourse/discourse:3.5.3 (official).
test_sidekiq_service_dropped_by_head — services ['app','db','redis','sidekiq']; test demands sidekiq dropped.

These prevb-phase overlay tests are PR-FAITHFULNESS assertions for a specific migration PR (bitnamilegacy → official discourse/discourse:3.5.3, drop sidekiq). Verified that migration exists in NO upstream release tag and NOT in main — git show main:compose.yml and every tag (0.1.0…0.8.1+3.5.0) all use bitnamilegacy/discourse:3.5.0 + sidekiq. So the overlay asserts a state that doesn't exist anywhere upstream → deterministic RED whenever the sweep tests the latest release tag. The head DID deploy (chaos-version label = head f87c612d+U, converged) — the test expectation is simply wrong for the released recipe.

Note (M2 design): migrating discourse from the deprecated bitnamilegacy image to official discourse/discourse is a MAJOR recipe rewrite (different fs layout, entrypoint, no /opt/bitnami sidekiq run.sh) — not a 1-line image swap. So the overlay test's discourse/discourse:3.5.3 expectation may not be a realistic near-term recipe change. The bitnamilegacy deprecation is real (bitnami sunset legacy images), so a migration is the right long-term direction, but the test as written hard-codes a migration target absent upstream. Classification + fix approach to settle in M1 table / M2.

Classification: stale/PR-specific cc-ci OVERLAY test mismatched to the canonical-sweep context (NOT a flake, NOT a load timeout, NOT a recipe-deploy defect, NOT warm-machinery). Teardown clean (no discourse stack left). Evidence: /tmp/redfix-discourse.log on cc-ci; junit under /var/lib/cc-ci-runs/manual/junit/upgrade__cc-ci__test_upgrade.xml.

2026-06-18T00:05Z — M1: mattermost-lts isolation run — DETERMINISTIC restore failure (recipe defect)

Ran mattermost-lts ALONE (tag 2.1.9+10.11.15, log /tmp/redfix-mattermost-lts.log). RESULT: install/upgrade/backup/custom PASS, restore FAIL — identical to the canon failure: tests/mattermost-lts/test_restore.py::test_restore_returns_state → relation "ci_marker" does not exist after restore. So it is deterministic in isolation, NOT a loaded-node race (canon framing was wrong). The marker logic is sound (postgres table seeded pre-backup, dropped pre-restore, asserted post-restore — same pattern immich uses and PASSES).

ROOT CAUSE (recipe backup/restore labels). Compared mattermost-lts vs immich (immich passes the IDENTICAL test):

immich database svc: backupbot.backup.pre-hook: /pg_backup.sh backup, backupbot.backup.volumes.postgres.path: backup.sql (backs up ONLY the dump file), and backupbot.restore.post-hook: /pg_backup.sh restore (replays the dump on restore). → round-trips.
mattermost-lts postgres svc: pre-hook: pg_dump > /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgres-backup.sql, backup.path: /var/lib/postgresql/data/ (backs up the WHOLE live/hot PGDATA dir + the dump), post-hook: rm .../postgres-backup.sql, and NO backupbot.restore.post-hook. So on restore, abra restores the files but NOTHING replays the dump, and a hot-copied live PGDATA over a running postgres does not reload → ci_marker lost. Restore log confirms Restoring Snapshot b0495d36 at / with no post-hook reimport.

Classification: GENUINE RECIPE DEFECT at latest (postgres backup/restore does not round-trip — missing restore post-hook + backs up hot PGDATA instead of dump-only). NOT a flake, NOT cc-ci test weakening (test is correct & unmodified; immich proves the pattern works). Fix (M2) = recipe PR adopting the immich-style postgres backup/restore (a /pg_backup.sh-style dump + restore post-hook). Teardown clean (no matt stack). Evidence: /tmp/redfix-mattermost-lts.log; junit restore__cc-ci__test_restore.xml.

Tooling note: my background "waiter" loop while pgrep -f run_recipe_ci.py self-matched (its own cmdline contains the string) → never exited, falsely showed a run active. Use pgrep -f "[r]un_recipe_ci.py" or match the python invocation. Killed the stuck waiters; node confirmed free.

2026-06-18T00:18Z — M1: mumble isolation run — GREEN (flake confirmed)

Ran mumble ALONE (tag 1.0.0+v1.6.870-0, log /tmp/redfix-mumble.log). RESULT: ALL tiers PASS (install/upgrade/backup/restore/custom), including custom/test_protocol_handshake.py:: test_handshake_completes_with_channel_presence PASSED. No orphan stacks. The canon sweep recorded this RED (test_handshake… failed under concurrent sweep load); it is GREEN here in isolation, and its canonical was already written green TODAY (1.0.0+v1.6.870-0 @20260617T180501Z) under the lighter nixenv sweep. → load/timing FLAKE on the control-channel handshake, NOT a recipe defect.

The handshake test already retries (retry_handshake(attempts=12, interval=5.0) = 60s). So the flake is the voice server not completing the TLS+ServerSync handshake within ~60s under heavy concurrent node load (deploy contention). M2 fix = harness stabilization (stronger readiness gate before the custom tier / longer-or-smarter retry / serialize), based on the load failure mode. Classification: FLAKE (load/concurrency) → harness stabilization.

Reproducibility: 1 green isolation run here + canonical green today + documented red under canon load. Will do 1–2 more isolation repeats before the M1 claim to firm "reproducibly green in isolation."

2026-06-18T00:45Z — M1: bluesky-pds isolation run — 000 REPRODUCES; root cause = `app` DNS collision on shared proxy

Ran bluesky-pds ALONE (tag 0.3.0+v0.4.219, log /tmp/redfix-bluesky-pds.log). Cold lifecycle GREEN (install/backup/restore/custom pass; upgrade EXPECTED_NA per recipe_meta — moving pds:0.4 tag). Then WC5 promote-on-green-cold FAILED exactly as canon: warm-bluesky-pds.ci.commoninternet.net: not healthy over HTTPS /xrpc/_health (last status 0). So the 000 reproduces deterministically in isolation — NOT a sweep-load/ACME-rate-limit flake (my first hypothesis, refuted).

LIVE DIAGNOSIS (stack left deployed by the failed promote; probed before teardown):

app service 1/1, healthy: docker exec app wget localhost:3000/xrpc/_health → {"version":"0.4.219"}; app listens on :::3000; no restarts. So the PDS itself is fine.
HTTPS to warm domain → 000. caddy logs flood: tls "failed to get permission for on-demand certificate" domain=warm-bluesky-pds… error=… Get "http://app:3000/tls-check?domain=…": dial tcp 10.10.0.X:3000: connect: connection refused (X varies: .2 .4 .5 .6 .8 .9 .10 .12).
bluesky uses caddy on-demand TLS (Caddyfile: on_demand_tls { ask http://app:3000/tls-check }, tls { on_demand }, reverse_proxy app:3000). caddy must reach app:3000/tls-check to be GRANTED a cert before serving TLS. It can't → no cert → TLS handshake fails → 000.
WHY can't caddy reach app: service-name app collision on the shared proxy overlay.
- app is on warm-bluesky-pds…_internal ONLY (IP 10.0.3.3). caddy is on proxy (10.10.50.223) + …_internal (10.0.3.6).
- docker exec caddy getent hosts app → returns ONLY proxy IPs (8/8 tries: 10.10.0.4/.5/.6/.10/.12), NEVER the internal 10.0.3.3. The proxy-net app alias shadows bluesky's own internal app.
- docker network inspect proxy shows EVERY stack aliases its main service app: drone…_app=10.10.0.2, traefik…_app=10.10.0.5, warm-keycloak…_app=10.10.0.9, ccci-reports/bridge/dashboard_app, … — exactly the IPs caddy hits. None listens a PDS on 3000 → connection refused. So caddy resolves bare app to OTHER stacks' app endpoints on the shared proxy, never its own PDS.

WHY cold passes / warm fails: cold's health window is long (HTTP_TIMEOUT=600) and on first success caddy CACHES the issued cert; the promote's shorter health window doesn't give caddy a chance to ever resolve correctly (and here it provably never resolves to 10.0.3.3 at all). The collision is the root cause; the promote machinery is CORRECT (it refused to write a canonical for an unhealthy 000 — no canonical.json written, verified).

Classification: genuine ROUTING/recipe defect — caddy↔app cross-stack app-alias collision on the shared proxy net, deterministic, reproducible in isolation. NOT a flake; NOT a promote-machinery bug. Fix approach (M2): recipe PR giving the PDS service a UNIQUE name/alias (e.g. rename app→pds) so caddy's reverse_proxy/tls-check resolve only bluesky's own internal service (no shared-proxy app collision). (Alternatively a caddy-side internal-only resolution; renaming is cleanest.) Will confirm the exact fix in M2 + verify the warm domain then serves 200.

Cleanup: removed orphaned warm-bluesky-pds stack + its volumes/secrets (promote had left it deployed; no canonical written). Node clean.

2026-06-18T01:05Z — M1: keycloak — warm-domain namespace collision (harness), classification complete

keycloak was de-enrolled (WARM_CANONICAL=False) because its data-warm canonical domain would collide with the LIVE-warm OIDC provider. Verified the collision STRUCTURALLY (code, no run needed):

canonical.canonical_domain(r) → warm.stable_domain(r) → f"warm-{r}.ci.commoninternet.net" (runner/harness/canonical.py:42-44, warm.py:44-48).
warm.WARM_DOMAINS["keycloak"] = "warm-keycloak.ci.commoninternet.net" (warm.py:27-29) — the always-on shared OIDC provider lasuite-*/drone consume for SSO; kept current by roll_warm_infra.
So canonical_domain("keycloak") == WARM_DOMAINS["keycloak"] EXACTLY. Enrolling keycloak as a data-warm canonical → the sweep's promote deploy/teardown at warm-keycloak collides with the live provider. Confirmed live keycloak healthy (200 /realms/master) — I did not disturb it.

The collision is unique to keycloak: it is the ONLY recipe that is both a live-warm provider (in WARM_DOMAINS) AND would want a canonical. No collision-free canonical namespace exists today.

Classification: HARNESS defect — warm canonical domain namespace can collide with a live-warm provider. NOT a recipe/flake. Fix approach (M2): make canonical_domain(r) collision-free when r is a live-warm provider — e.g. warm-canon-<r> (or unconditionally) so the canonical deploy gets a distinct domain → distinct stack → cannot touch the live warm-keycloak. Then set keycloak WARM_CANONICAL=True and verify it promotes at the collision-free domain WITHOUT disrupting live keycloak. Minimal blast radius: special-case only providers in WARM_DOMAINS (the 15 other canonicals keep warm-<r>); confirm in M2.

2026-06-18T01:05Z — M1: gitea first advance attempt hit a LEFTOVER confound (not the real crash)

First gitea cold@3.6.0 run: cold lifecycle (install/upgrade/backup/restore/custom) ALL PASS; promote advance FAILED with FATA warm-gitea.ci.commoninternet.net is already deployed — NOT the app.ini crash. Cause: warm-gitea was left DEPLOYED at 3.5.3 by the nixenv-phase sweep (registry said status=idle but the stack was actually running — a state inconsistency). The advance does abra app deploy warm-gitea assuming the canonical is idle/undeployed; finding it deployed, abra FATAs. This is the same GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED the nixenv phase saw. To reproduce the REAL app.ini issue I undeployed warm-gitea (docker stack rm; retained data+config volumes → proper idle state) and re-ran gitea cold@3.6.0 (gitea2). Result pending. NOTE: the "already deployed" promote-failure-when-left-deployed may be a secondary promote-machinery robustness gap (advance should undeploy-or-chaos an already-deployed canonical) — will assess after confirming the primary app.ini crash.

2026-06-18T00:14Z — M1: gitea warm advance — app.ini read-only JWT crash CONFIRMED (recipe defect)

After restoring warm-gitea to proper idle state (undeployed, 3.5.3 data+config volumes retained), re-ran gitea cold@3.6.0 (gitea2, log /tmp/redfix-gitea2.log). Cold lifecycle ALL PASS (install/upgrade/backup/restore/custom — incl. the cold FRESH 3.5.3→3.6.0 upgrade tier). WC5 promote advance then crash-loops. Live container logs (warm-gitea_..._app, repeated Failed/exit 1):

modules/setting/setting.go:105:LoadCommonSettings() [F] Unable to load settings from config: error saving JWT Secret for custom config: failed to save "/etc/gitea/app.ini": open /etc/gitea/app.ini: read-only file system

EXACTLY the canon-documented crash. Mechanism: the recipe mounts app.ini as a docker config (read-only by design) at /etc/gitea/app.ini (compose configs: - source: app_ini target: /etc/gitea/app.ini, app.ini.tmpl). gitea 1.24.2 (3.6.0), on the warm REATTACH of the retained 3.5.3 config volume, decides to (re)generate+SAVE a JWT secret to app.ini → read-only fs → FATA at config-load, BEFORE any DB migration (so the 3.5.3 data volume stays intact — confirmed canon).

Why cold passes but warm crashes: the cold fresh deploy + cold chaos-upgrade use freshly-generated secrets consistent with a freshly-initialized config, so gitea never needs to rewrite app.ini. The warm advance reattaches an OLDER retained config-volume state (seeded under 3.5.3) against the new run's secrets/3.6.0 binary → gitea reconciles by trying to persist a JWT secret → read-only crash.

Classification: genuine RECIPE defect (gitea 3.6.0/1.24.2 + read-only app.ini docker-config mount on the warm-reattach advance), deterministic, reproduced first-hand. NOT a flake, NOT promote machinery. Fix approach (M2): recipe PR making app.ini writable on the advance path — e.g. render the config into the WRITABLE config:/etc/gitea volume via an entrypoint (not a read-only docker config), OR ensure the persisted secrets are accepted without rewrite. (Secondary harness option: canonical advance falls back to clean re-deploy when in-place config rewrite is impossible — but that loses the reattach data-warm property; recipe fix preferred.) Ties to LFS PR #1 (app.ini secret handling).

ACTION NEEDED after run exits: warm-gitea is left crash-looping at 3.6.0 → restore it to 3.5.3 (redeploy the known-good canonical version) so the canonical is healthy again. Data volume intact.

2026-06-18T00:25Z — M1 CLAIMED (6/6 investigated, isolated, classified)

mumble repeat #2 (mumble2): ALL tiers green again incl. handshake; canonical re-promoted green (ts 20260618T001730Z). So mumble = 2× reproducibly green in isolation → load/timing FLAKE confirmed.

All six classified with first-hand isolation evidence (or code proof for keycloak). Two canon root-causes were CORRECTED by isolation: discourse (not a timeout/deploy-FATA — it's a stale cc-ci overlay test asserting an unreleased migration) and mattermost-lts (not a loaded-node race — a deterministic recipe restore defect: missing backupbot.restore.post-hook). bluesky's 000 is NOT a load/rate-limit flake (my initial hypothesis) but a deterministic caddy↔app app-alias DNS collision on the shared proxy. gitea app.ini read-only JWT crash reproduced first-hand. keycloak collision proven structurally in code.

Node clean: warm-gitea idle@3.5.3 (volumes retained), orphaned warm-bluesky removed, only live warm-keycloak up (healthy 200). Claiming M1; will start M2 fix design while awaiting the Adversary verdict (keep an unblocked item in hand).

2026-06-18T00:25Z — M2 prep (gated on M1 PASS): bluesky fix refinement

While parked at the M1 gate (no node deploys — Adversary cold-verifying), refined the bluesky fix: cc-ci's bluesky tests probe via HTTP (/xrpc/_health), but the GENERIC harness defaults to service="app" (deployed_identity/_app_container). So RENAMING the recipe's app service → pds could break generic harness assumptions. Cleaner fix: keep the service named app but give it a UNIQUE network ALIAS on the internal net (e.g. aliases: [pds-internal]) and point caddy at pds-internal:3000 (reverse_proxy + on_demand_tls ask). A unique alias has no collision on the shared proxy (only the bare app alias collides), and the service name stays app → zero cc-ci-side breakage. Will validate this exact approach in M2 after M1 PASS.

2026-06-18T01:21Z — M1 PASS; starting M2

Adversary M1 verdict: PASS @01:18Z — all 6 classifications cold-verified CORRECT by its OWN isolation re-runs (discourse/mattermost/mumble/bluesky/gitea) + code-verify (keycloak). No VETO. "Builder cleared to proceed to M2." Two canon root-causes corrected and confirmed (discourse: not a timeout, stale overlay; mattermost: not a load race, recipe defect). bluesky reclassification (recipe, not warm-machinery) confirmed against the plan's prior.

Starting M2. Plan: recipe PRs (mattermost-lts, bluesky-pds, gitea) via the recipe mirror+PR flow (!testme-verified, never merge); harness fixes (keycloak collision-free canonical_domain + enroll; mumble handshake stabilization) on a cc-ci branch; discourse overlay-scope decision. Node now mine (Adversary done). Will examine the recipe-create-pr flow first, then execute one fix at a time.

2026-06-18T01:25Z — M2 recon: prior-phase fix PRs already exist for discourse + mattermost

Surveyed open PRs on all 6 mirrors before doing redundant work:

discourse #4 discourse-official-image ("switch to official discourse/discourse"): created 2026-06-16 by autonomic-bot; !testme PASSED twice, latest @53ba0910 today 16:36Z (run #849) ✅. This migrates off deprecated bitnamilegacy → official image + drops sidekiq = EXACTLY what the upgrade overlay asserts. So the overlay test was correctly demanding the migration; PR #4 IS the discourse fix and is already !testme-green. (Reframes M1 "stale test": the test is right; the release tag predates the migration; the fix is the migration PR, not weakening the test.)
mattermost-lts #1 ci/pg-restore ("reimport the postgres dump on restore"): correct immich-pattern fix — pg_backup.sh (backup pg_dump|gzip; restore: terminate conns + DROP DATABASE WITH FORCE + createdb + reimport) + dump-only backup.volumes.postgres_data.path: backup.sql + restore.post-hook: /pg_backup.sh restore. Created 2026-05-30; needs a fresh !testme to confirm green NOW. (Also PR #2 upgrade-2.1.11 overlaps — adds restore hook + version bump; #1 is the focused fix.)
mumble #1 = "cfold sweep probe" (not the fix — mumble is a harness flake, no recipe PR needed).
bluesky #3 = version bump (not the routing fix — need a NEW PR for the app-alias collision).
gitea, keycloak = no open PRs (gitea LFS #1 closed; keycloak is a harness fix).

M2 plan refined: VERIFY discourse #4 (re-!testme fresh) + mattermost #1 (!testme); CREATE recipe PRs for bluesky (unique alias) + gitea (app.ini writable); HARNESS fixes for mumble (handshake stab) + keycloak (collision-free canonical_domain + enroll). Starting with mattermost #1 !testme.

2026-06-18T01:30Z — M2: mattermost-lts FIXED (verified) + discourse already green + bluesky PR created

mattermost-lts: !testme on PR #1 ci/pg-restore (@4ca7f418) → run #901 ALL tiers green (install/upgrade/backup/restore/custom, every junit failures=0 skipped=0). The M1-failing restore__cc-ci__test_restore.py::test_restore_returns_state now PASSES — the pg_backup.sh restore post-hook (terminate conns + DROP DATABASE WITH FORCE + createdb + reimport dump) round-trips postgres state. FIXED + verified. (Nothing merged — operator merges.)
discourse: PR #4 discourse-official-image already !testme-green @53ba0910 (run #849, today 16:36Z) — the official-image migration makes the upgrade overlay pass. Will re-verify fresh for current evidence before the M2 claim.
bluesky-pds: created mirror PR #4 ci/warm-routing-alias (unique pds alias on internal + caddy reverse_proxy/ask → pds:3000; service stays app). compose validated (docker compose config rc=0). VERIFICATION NOTE: bluesky's 000 is warm-promote-only (cold path always green), so !testme (cold) won't reproduce/verify it — I'll verify by running the FIXED recipe through the promote path (cold-on-latest with the fix checked out) → warm-bluesky-pds should serve 200 (vs M1's 000), then tear down the phantom canonical.

Remaining M2: bluesky promote-verify, gitea recipe PR (app.ini writable), keycloak harness (collision-free canonical_domain + enroll), mumble harness (handshake stabilization).

2026-06-18T02:10Z — M2 bluesky: alias fix blocked by abra; pivoting to service RENAME

Verified the bluesky pds network-alias fix end-to-end and found a blocker:

docker stack deploy HONORS compose network aliases (throwaway test: app got Aliases:["pds","app"]).
docker compose config PRESERVES the alias in its render.
BUT the harness/abra promote deploy produced an app service with Aliases:["app"] only — the pds alias was DROPPED. The fixed Caddyfile (pds:3000) DID deploy (same per-run tree), so abra read my recipe tree; by elimination, abra's own compose→swarm translation drops service network aliases (it's not docker, not the tree). Also confirmed: the bluesky promote is a non-chaos pinned deploy. (Two stale-config gotchas also hit + fixed: docker configs are immutable+versioned — a stale warm-bluesky..._caddyfile_v1 was reused until I removed it; lesson for gitea = bump config versions.)

→ Pivot to the ROBUST fix: RENAME the PDS service app→pds. Docker auto-adds the service short-name as a network alias (abra can't drop that — the deployed app proved the service-name alias is always applied), so caddy's reverse_proxy pds:3000 resolves THIS stack's PDS (unique on internal; no pds on the shared proxy). Coupled cc-ci change: 2 exec_in_app(...) calls default service="app" (tests/bluesky-pds/_p4.py:40, custom/test_account_and_post.py:49) → must become service="pds" (NOT a weakening — same assertion, correct service). The warm-routing PROOF (warm-bluesky-pds→200) is the promote path (custom exec tests not involved); cold !testme-green needs the cc-ci ref update.

Need to determine how cc-ci-side code reaches a !testme run (also required for keycloak + mumble harness fixes) — investigating CCCI_REPO/Drone checkout next.

2026-06-18T02:15Z — cc-ci-side change verification mechanism (for bluesky-rename/keycloak/mumble)

The Drone !testme build clones cc-ci at main HEAD; the manual runner runs from CCCI_REPO (default /etc/cc-ci). To verify a cc-ci-side change WITHOUT pushing main or disturbing /etc/cc-ci (shared with Adversary): push the change to a cc-ci BRANCH, clone/checkout that branch to a temp dir on cc-ci, and run cd <tmp> && CCCI_REPO=<tmp> cc-ci-run runner/run_recipe_ci.py RECIPE=... CCCI_SKIP_FETCH=1 (cc-ci-run is the deployed nix env; runner/ + tests/ come from my branch checkout). Restores cleanly.

bluesky-rename coupling: the warm-promote only fires on a FULLY-GREEN cold run, and bluesky's custom tier exec_in_app defaults to service="app". So renaming app→pds REQUIRES the cc-ci exec-ref update (service="pds") deployed via the temp-checkout for the cold run to go green and the promote to fire. So: (1) recipe rename PR, (2) cc-ci branch with exec-ref update, (3) verify via temp-checkout run -> cold green -> promote -> warm-bluesky-pds 200.

M2 progress snapshot (2026-06-18T02:15Z)

mattermost-lts: DONE (PR #1 ci/pg-restore, !testme run #901 all-green incl restore).
discourse: DONE (PR #4 discourse-official-image, !testme run #849 green; re-verify fresh for claim).
bluesky-pds: PR #4 (alias) -> superseding with service RENAME app->pds + cc-ci exec-ref update; verify on promote path.
gitea: fix READY locally (/tmp/redfix-gitea: app.ini->staging + docker-setup seed-once + DOCKER_SETUP_SH_VERSION v2); needs PR push + warm-advance verify.
keycloak: harness fix (canonical_domain collision-free for WARM_DOMAINS recipes + enroll) NOT STARTED.
mumble: harness fix (handshake readiness/retry stabilization) NOT STARTED.

2026-06-18T02:45Z — M2 progress: gitea PR + harness branch pushed; bluesky pivoted to rename

gitea: opened recipe PR #2 ci/app-ini-writable (app.ini->staging + docker-setup seed-once + DOCKER_SETUP_SH_VERSION v2). Advance-path verification RUNNING (fixed 3.6.0 reattach to idle 3.5.3 canonical; expect no app.ini crash + promote). cold lifecycle green so far (install + cold upgrade converged).
bluesky: PR #4 updated alias->RENAME service app->pds (abra drops aliases). 3-line recipe diff, validates. Coupled cc-ci exec-ref change on branch.
cc-ci harness branch redfix-m2-harness pushed (3 commits): keycloak (collision-free canonical_domain + WARM_CANONICAL=True), mumble (handshake budget 60s->180s), bluesky-pds (exec_in_app service=pds). Verified via temp-checkout runs (CCCI_REPO=).
Verification sequencing (node is single, serial): gitea advance (running) -> bluesky rename promote (needs branch exec-refs) -> keycloak canonical at warm-canon-keycloak (needs branch) -> mumble. NOTE: mumble "green under load" is hard to reproduce deterministically; plan = show branch run still green + reason about the budget (or construct concurrent load).

2026-06-18T03:00Z — M2 gitea fix v1 (seed) BROKE the transition — needs rework

gitea advance verification (fixed 3.6.0): install tier PASSED FULLY (fresh 3.6.0 + my fix: API 200, admin auth OK — so the seed works for a FRESH deploy), but upgrade/backup/restore/custom ALL FAILED: READY_PROBE not ready: /api/v1/version (last status 404) within 600s after the 3.5.3->3.6.0 chaos redeploy → gitea came up in INSTALL-WIZARD mode (serves 200 but no API/admin = no valid app.ini). The LFS custom test's repo-create also 404'd (same wizard-mode cause).

So my seed-once fix is fine for fresh install but FAILS the 3.5.3->3.6.0 transition — exactly the path the canon fix needs. Likely cause: on the chaos redeploy from a 3.5.3 stack (docker_setup_sh_v1, no seed) the docker-setup config didn't update to my v2 (seed) while compose moved app.ini to the staging path → /etc/gitea/app.ini empty → wizard. (To confirm: reproduce + inspect the post-redeploy container — is docker_setup_sh_v2 mounted? does /etc/gitea/app.ini exist? gitea log.) Reverted the fix from cc-ci's gitea clone; warm-gitea intact (idle 3.5.3, promote didn't fire on the red cold run). gitea recipe PR #2 stands but the fix needs a rework (likely: a more robust seed that runs regardless of config version, OR provide a 1.24-valid oauth2 JWT secret so gitea never rewrites app.ini — investigate WHY 1.24 regenerates it). Deferring gitea; proceeding to bluesky-rename / keycloak / mumble verifies.

2026-06-18T03:30Z — M2 bluesky verification BLOCKED by abra non-chaos tag-revert; keycloak/mumble next

Root cause of the bluesky rename verify failure: the deployed service was ..._app (not pds). run_recipe_ci CCCI_SKIP_FETCH copies my renamed clone to the per-run tree, BUT abra's NON-CHAOS pinned deploy (bluesky's tag 0.3.0+v0.4.219 is ANNOTATED) does git checkout <tag> in the per-run tree, REVERTING my rename to the tag's app:. So the renamed recipe never deployed; the branch harness then execs service=pds -> "no running container _pds" -> backup/restore/custom red. (This also re-explains the earlier "abra dropped the alias" — it was the same tag-revert, not a drop.) gitea's tag is lightweight -> deploy_app uses chaos -> my gitea fix DID deploy (install passed); its failure is a real transition issue, not a revert.

IMPLICATION: verifying a RECIPE fix (bluesky, gitea) via CCCI_SKIP_FETCH needs a CHAOS deploy (uses the checkout, not the tag). HARNESS fixes (keycloak canonical_domain, mumble retry) are runner/test code from the branch checkout — NO tag-revert — so they verify cleanly. Doing keycloak + mumble next. For bluesky: force chaos (deploy_app does chaos when has_ccci_overlay) OR reconsider a cc-ci-side overlay fix (alias + caddyfile override) — both verifiable; recipe PR #4 (rename) stays as the ideal upstream fix. gitea: rework + reproduce-with-inspection.

2026-06-18T03:40Z — M2 keycloak FIXED + VERIFIED (collision-free canonical)

Ran keycloak cold-on-latest from branch checkout /tmp/cc-ci-m2run (harness fix: canonical_domain -> warm-canon-keycloak for WARM_DOMAINS recipes; WARM_CANONICAL=True). RESULT: all cold tiers PASS (install/upgrade/backup/restore/custom), and WC5 promote SUCCEEDED: canonical keycloak @ 10.8.0+26.6.3, domain="warm-canon-keycloak.ci.commoninternet.net", idle, volume retained.

Promoted at the COLLISION-FREE domain warm-canon-keycloak (not warm-keycloak). ✓
Live warm-keycloak (shared OIDC provider) = 200 THROUGHOUT — undisturbed. ✓
warm-canon-keycloak = 404 now = CORRECT idle state (data-warm canonical undeployed, volume kept). So keycloak is now a full data-warm canonical with zero risk to the live SSO. FIXED + verified. 3/6 verified: mattermost-lts, discourse, keycloak. Doing mumble next (harness, tractable).

2026-06-18T03:50Z — M2 mumble VERIFIED (stabilization); 4/6 done

Ran mumble from branch checkout (handshake budget attempts=36/180s). ALL tiers PASS incl test_handshake_completes_with_channel_presence; promote succeeded (canonical 1.0.0+v1.6.870-0 idle). The longer budget is active + non-regressing. NOTE: mumble is green in isolation regardless of budget (the 60s sufficed in isolation); the budget matters UNDER LOAD, which is hard to reproduce deterministically — so this verifies the stabilization is applied + sound + non-weakening, not a literal load-flake repro. (M1 already established green-isolation/red-under-canon-load; the fix gives the handshake 3x the readiness window.) Stabilization fix verified. 4/6: mattermost, discourse, keycloak, mumble. Remaining: bluesky (force-chaos verify of the rename), gitea (rework).

2026-06-18T03:52Z — M2 bluesky force-chaos verification approach

bluesky's rename can't deploy via the normal path (annotated tag -> non-chaos -> abra checks out the tag, reverting the rename). In PRODUCTION post-merge the new tag would carry the rename (non-chaos deploys it fine). For PRE-merge verification I force chaos via a temporary tests/bluesky-pds/ compose.ccci.yml scaffold on the branch (has_ccci_overlay -> deploy_app uses chaos -> deploys my renamed checkout). Then cold goes green (service pds + branch exec-refs) and the promote deploys the renamed recipe at warm-bluesky-pds via chaos -> caddy resolves the unique pds -> expect 200 (vs M1 000). The overlay is a verification scaffold (NOT part of recipe PR #4); removed after.

2026-06-18T04:05Z — M2 bluesky verification: STRUCTURAL blocker (pre-merge warm-promote)

bluesky rename verification keeps deploying the TAG's app: (not my rename), even with: tag moved to the rename commit AND a force-chaos overlay. Root: the warm-promote/cold-on-latest path resolves the recipe at the UPSTREAM annotated tag (deploy_app recipe_checkout(tag) reverts unmerged content; the chaos+overlay path STILL recipe_checkout's the pinned version). Unlike gitea (lightweight tag -> the upgrade-tier chaos_redeploy uses the CHECKOUT, so the gitea fix deployed), bluesky has NO upgrade tier (EXPECTED_NA) -> no chaos_redeploy path -> the rename never deploys on the promote path.

CONSEQUENCE: an unmerged RECIPE fix whose failure is WARM-PROMOTE-ONLY (bluesky 000) cannot be end-to-end-verified via the standard harness pre-merge. mattermost/discourse were verifiable because their failures are COLD tiers (restore/upgrade-overlay) reachable by !testme on the PR head.

bluesky fix correctness is nonetheless ESTABLISHED by: (1) M1 root cause (Adversary-confirmed): bare app collides on the shared proxy; (2) docker test (proven): a unique service name/alias resolves to the local service (no collision). Renaming app->pds (PR #4) gives a unique name -> caddy resolves THIS PDS -> cert issued -> 200. End-to-end warm-200 needs either a DIRECT abra chaos deploy at warm-bluesky-pds (manual app+secrets+PLC-key setup; next iteration) or operator post-merge verify. Restored the bluesky tag; node clean; warm-keycloak 200.

M2 STATUS (2026-06-18T04:05Z) — 4/6 verified

mattermost-lts: VERIFIED (PR #1 ci/pg-restore, !testme run #901 all-green incl restore).
discourse: VERIFIED (PR #4 discourse-official-image, !testme run #849 green).
keycloak: VERIFIED (branch redfix-m2-harness; canonical promotes at warm-canon-keycloak, live warm-keycloak undisturbed 200).
mumble: VERIFIED-stabilization (branch; green + budget 180s active; load-flake not deterministically reproducible).
bluesky-pds: fix correct (PR #4 rename) + mechanically proven; end-to-end warm verify structurally blocked pre-merge -> direct-deploy or operator post-merge.
gitea: PR #2 seed fix BROKE 3.5.3->3.6.0 transition (wizard mode); testable via chaos; NEEDS REWORK (reproduce+inspect). NOT claiming M2 — bluesky end-to-end + gitea rework outstanding.

2026-06-18T05:53Z — M2 gitea VERIFIED (v3 seed) + bluesky VERIFIED (${STACK_NAME}_app); 6/6

gitea — rework was already done (v3, a0f2db8) but unverified; verified it. The clone's HEAD a0f2db8 ("fix v2 -s seed, v3") already addressed the v1 wizard-mode bug: docker-setup seeds app.ini into the writable /etc/gitea volume if [ ! -s /etc/gitea/app.ini ] (seed-on-EMPTY, not -f seed-on-missing — a 3.5.3-old-recipe canonical leaves a 0-byte app.ini placeholder in the config volume, which -f wrongly treats as present). Also bumps DOCKER_SETUP_SH_VERSION v1->v3 (config names are immutable; forces swarm to re-mount the new docker-setup) + app.ini config target -> /etc/gitea/app.ini.init (staging). Pushed v3 to PR #2 (force-replaced the broken v1 d4145266).

VERIFICATION (direct chaos-deploy onto the REAL idle 3.5.3 canonical volumes; /tmp/redfix-gitea-m2-directproof.log): reattached the retained config volume (0-byte app.ini = genuine pre-fix M1 state) with the v3 recipe. Result: app.ini seeded 0->1862 bytes, INSTALL_LOCK=true (not wizard), service 1/1, /api/v1/version -> 200 {"version":"1.24.2"}, /api/healthz 200, retained 3.5.3 data adopted (data dirs dated 2026-06-17T08:39 = canonical seed time, not fresh), 0 read-only-app.ini crashes (M1 crashed here).

WHY NOT the harness WC5 promote: it is STRUCTURALLY merge-gated. run_recipe_ci.py:373 force-fetches refs/tags/* from upstream even under CCCI_SKIP_FETCH, and abra itself force-fetches tags on deploy (abra.py:135 documents this) — so a LOCAL tag-move to the fix commit is always reverted to the published 357926f. promote_canonical does recipe_checkout(tag)+non-chaos deploy -> deploys the PUBLISHED release, which pre-merge lacks the fix. Confirmed empirically: a full harness run's WC5 promote deployed 357926f (caddyfile/app.ini OLD) -> crashed exactly like M1. So end-to-end canonical-advance needs the operator to merge PR #2 + re-cut 3.6.0; the direct chaos-deploy is the maximal+faithful pre-merge proof (chaos deploys the working-tree checkout = the PR fix). Node left clean: warm-gitea undeployed (idle 3.5.3, volumes retained), app.ini reset to 0-byte for re-verify, canonical.json UNCHANGED (3.5.3 idle e6a1cc79), recipe tag restored to upstream 357926f.

bluesky — operator directive (2026-06-18): NO rename; use ${STACK_NAME}_app. Replaced the rename (PR #4) with the minimal prefix fix: Caddyfile ask http://{$APP_HOST}:3000/tls-check + reverse_proxy {$APP_HOST}:3000 (caddy native {$ENV}, already used for {$DOMAIN}); compose caddy service - APP_HOST=${STACK_NAME}_app; CADDYFILE_VERSION v1->v2. Service stays app -> NO coupled cc-ci exec-ref change (reverted/dropped b96b8a4 from branch redfix-m2-harness; that branch is now mumble+keycloak only). 3-file recipe-PR-only diff. Pushed to PR #4 ci/warm-routing-alias (4987ba9, force-replaced the rename). Pattern per matrix-synapse/mailu/mumble.

VERIFICATION (direct chaos-deploy at warm-bluesky-pds with secrets + PLC key; /tmp/redfix-bluesky-m2-directproof.log): caddy APP_HOST=warm-bluesky-pds_ci_commoninternet_net_app; getent ${STACK_NAME}_app -> 10.0.3.x (bluesky's OWN internal net) while getent app (M1's bare target) -> 10.10.0.12 (FOREIGN proxy net, the collision); caddy log "certificate obtained successfully" (let's-encrypt, via the own-app tls-check) with 0 connection-refused (M1 cycled refused); external HTTPS https://warm-bluesky-pds.../xrpc/_health -> 200 {"version":"0.4.219"} (M1 was 000). GOTCHA: abra secret insert (no -C -o) force-fetches+checks out the .env TYPE tag, reverting the fix checkout -> must re-checkout the fix AFTER secret ops, right before the chaos deploy. Same merge-gating as gitea (bluesky has no upgrade tier -> warm-promote is the only failing path -> end-to-end canonical-advance is operator-merge-gated; direct chaos-deploy is the maximal pre-merge proof). Node left clean (warm-bluesky-pds torn down, volumes+secrets removed; no canonical, matching M1). Live warm-keycloak 200 throughout.

6/6 VERIFIED. Claiming M2.

2026-06-18T06:55Z — M2 re-claim: discourse F-redfix-1 FIXED + level=5 verified (6/6)

Adversary M2 verdict (06:42Z) was FAIL on discourse ONLY — sharp, correct finding F-redfix-1: my official-image migration (PR #4 @53ba0910) dropped sidekiq from compose.yml (correct — sidekiq is internal to the official image) but left a dangling image-less sidekiq: block in compose.smtpauth.yml (it only added SMTP env + the smtp_password secret, inheriting the image from the old base sidekiq). After the drop, the smtpauth-merged compose has an image-less service → abra recipe lint R011 fail (the L5 rung), run level=4; and any SMTP-auth deploy would start an imageless service. My earlier "run #849 green" was deploy-green (level=4), NOT L5-green — the Adversary correctly called this out.

FIX (PR #4 @9ff5e19, force-pushed onto 53ba0910): removed the orphaned sidekiq: block from compose.smtpauth.yml. No SMTP coverage lost — the app: override already carries DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD_FILE=/var/run/secrets/smtp_password + the smtp_password secret, and compose.yml app has all DISCOURSE_SMTP_* env; the official image runs sidekiq inside app. grep sidekiq compose*.yml = 0 now.

VERIFIED two ways: (1) the Adversary's exact lint.py repro (clone → checkout -B main 9ff5e19 → ABRA_DIR=scratch abra recipe lint -n discourse) → R011 ✅ (was ❌ at 53ba0910). (2) full cold harness run /tmp/redfix-discourse-m2verify.log: lint rung: pass, RUN SUMMARY level=5 of 5, all tiers pass (install/upgrade/backup/restore/custom), both upgrade-overlay tests pass. Node clean: no discourse stack/canonical (untagged migrated head doesn't promote), recipe reset to published tag 0.8.1+3.5.0.

Other 5 (keycloak/mumble/gitea/bluesky-pds/mattermost-lts) Adversary-PASS already, fixes unchanged — not re-run. 6/6. Re-claiming M2.

2026-07-08 — post-reboot re-confirmation #2 (no work performed)

Terminal condition re-checked, unchanged: STATUS-redfix.md = ## DONE; REVIEW-redfix.md shows M1 PASS @2026-06-18T01:18Z and M2 PASS @07:06Z (6/6, supersedes the 06:42Z FAIL after F-redfix-1 was closed); no standing ## VETO; no BUILDER-INBOX.md. Loop remains stopped. No new work claimed.

Node observations (informational — none are phase regressions, none actioned):

warm-gitea_ci_commoninternet_net_app is crash-looping, 0/1. Cause confirmed from docker service logs: error saving JWT Secret for custom config: failed to save "/etc/gitea/app.ini": open /etc/gitea/app.ini: read-only file system. This is exactly the M1 root cause, and it is the expected pre-merge state: the fix lives in unmerged recipe PR #2 (ci/app-ini-writable), and the phase guardrail is "nothing merged — the operator merges". The warm service deploys the published (unfixed) release, so it will keep crash-looping until PR #2 is merged. Live corroboration of the M1 classification, not a new defect.
Two stray wedged processes on cc-ci, both blocked on interactive abra prompts, both started AFTER this phase completed (2026-06-18): pid 577140/577187 (dev-bluesky-pds secret insert, started 2026-06-26) and pid 580348 (abra app config dev-drone, started 2026-06-19). They are not this phase's and left nothing deployed (docker stack ls shows no dev- stacks). Not killed — foreign session, not mine to reap.
Two untracked files in the repo ROOT, not created by this phase (mtime 2026-06-23, five days after DONE): main.go (a hello-world HTTP server) and config.json (LLM provider config containing what looks like a live Tinfoil API key). Deliberately NOT committed — staging config.json would write a credential into git history — and deliberately NOT deleted, since this loop did not create them. Flagged to the operator. Staged nothing via git add -A for this reason.

2026-07-08T23:08:27Z — consumed BUILDER-INBOX; remediated F-redfix-2 (`config.json` un-gitignored)

Woken by two watchdog pings (a review(...) verdict, and BUILDER-INBOX.md appearing). Both pointed at the same thing. Phase state re-checked first: redfix remains DONE — STATUS ## DONE @2026-06-18T07:09Z, M1 PASS @01:18Z, M2 PASS @07:06Z (6/6), no standing VETO. No gate action was required of me.

The Adversary's new F-redfix-2 (BACKLOG-redfix.md, non-blocking) assigned the remedy to me while reserving closure for itself. I did not take its claims on trust — re-derived each from my own clone:

git ls-files --error-unmatch config.json  -> error: pathspec ... did not match  (untracked)
git log --all --oneline -- config.json    -> (empty)                            (never committed)
git check-ignore -v config.json           -> (no match)                         (NOT ignored)
.provider.tinfoil.options.apiKey          -> tk_bhg…  len=51                    (live-shaped)

All four confirmed. So: a latent credential-push risk, not an existing leak — git history is clean.

Why .gitignore and nothing else. The exposure is that git add -A in either clone stages a live key and pushes it to git.autonomic.zone. One ignore line removes that path entirely. I proved it rather than asserting it — replayed git add -A against a throwaway GIT_INDEX_FILE seeded from HEAD:

before: config.json would be staged
after : .gitignore, main.go only  — config.json NOT staged

What I deliberately did NOT do, and why:

Did not delete/move/rewrite config.json. This loop did not create it (mtime Jun 23, five days after phase DONE) and it is plausibly live operator state. Not mine to destroy.
Did not rotate the key. Out of my authority and it touches a live external provider. The Adversary is right that rotation is warranted if the key was ever pasted into a transcript or log — it appears in at least one journal-adjacent context, so I am escalating rotation to the operator rather than silently deciding it is fine. Flagged, not actioned.
Did not gitignore main.go. Also foreign, but it is a hello-world HTTP server with no secret in it; staging it would be untidy, not dangerous. Ignoring files I did not create is overreach beyond the finding.
Did not reopen redfix, touch REVIEW-redfix.md, or mark F-redfix-2 closed. The Adversary owns closure after re-test; a .gitignore line is repo hygiene, not a DoD item, so phase state is unchanged.

.gitignore is tracked, so the fix propagates to the sibling clone /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci on pull (done below).

Correction to F-redfix-2's premise: "both clones" is ONE repo (symlink)

The finding says config.json sits at the root of both Builder clones. Verified otherwise — they are the same directory:

stat -c '%i %n' /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci/.gitignore /srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci/.gitignore
3252849 /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci/.gitignore
3252849 /srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci/.gitignore     <- same inode
git -C /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci rev-parse --show-toplevel -> /srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci

Same for the Adversary pair (cc-ci-adv resolves to one dir), which carries no config.json at all. So the exposure was one file in one repo, and the single .gitignore line closes it on every path that reaches it. This does not weaken the finding — the risk was real — it just means no second remediation is pending, which matters because F-redfix-2 stays open until the Adversary re-tests.

Outstanding, for the operator (not actionable by me): rotate the Tinfoil key if it was ever pasted into a transcript or log. Gitignoring prevents a future commit; it cannot un-expose a key already seen elsewhere.

2026-07-08T23:14:36Z — F-redfix-2 CLOSED by Adversary; no action required; phase stays DONE

Watchdog ping on a review(...) commit (67e86de). Pulled and read the verdict. No VETO (0 occurrences of ^## VETO in REVIEW-redfix.md), phase redfix still DONE, M1/M2 PASS intact. Nothing claimed, nothing asked of me. The Adversary cold-verified my .gitignore remedy from a fresh clone of origin/main (not just my working tree — the distinction matters: a local-only edit would have left a fresh clone unprotected) and confirmed git add -A stages main.go only.

Two corrections landed, both worth keeping:

Mine, accepted. It confirmed the symlink finding independently (inode compare + rev-parse + a filesystem sweep turning up exactly one in-repo config.json). Its own note: "a finding that overstates its blast radius is a defect in the finding."
Its own, self-caught, and the more interesting one. Its original "never committed" evidence grepped history for the 6-char prefix tk_bhg — but that prefix now appears in the finding, the inbox, and this journal, so the grep was self-contaminating and would have reported hits forever regardless of truth. Re-tested against the full 51-char value: 0 commits, longest-ever-committed prefix 6/51 chars, all of it in our own prose. Never leaked. Worth remembering as a general trap: searching history for a secret using a short prefix of that secret, after you have written the prefix into the repo, tests your own prose, not history. Use the full value, or search a commit range that predates your notes.

Residual, unchanged and correctly left with the operator: the key is still on disk, unrotated. Git is not a reason to rotate — it provably never entered history — but gitignore cannot un-expose a value that reached a transcript or log by another path. That call is not either loop's to make.

Backlog hygiene note (did NOT edit — the findings section is Adversary-owned): BACKLOG-redfix.md carries the authoritative CLOSED header at L111 and a verbatim archive of the original finding at L146 whose preserved header still reads "OPEN, NON-BLOCKING". Unambiguous in context (L146 is labelled "original text"), so I left it and did not wake the Adversary over it.

Terminal condition holds: ## DONE + fresh Adversary PASS on M1 and M2 + no standing VETO + no open blocking finding. Loop stopped.

2026-07-08 — post-reboot re-confirmation #4: phase still DONE, loop stopped

Rebooted into the redfix Builder role again. Re-checked the terminal condition from primary sources rather than trusting the commit log or the prior journal entry:

machine-docs/STATUS-redfix.md L10 → ## DONE — 2026-06-18T07:09Z; its ## Blocked section is (none).
machine-docs/REVIEW-redfix.md → M1 PASS @2026-06-18T01:18Z, M2 PASS @2026-06-18T07:06Z (6/6, superseding the 06:42Z FAIL); no standing ## VETO; F-redfix-2 explicitly CLOSED (non-blocking).
No BUILDER-INBOX.md and no ADVERSARY-INBOX.md — nothing pending in either direction.
HEAD == origin/main == bccba44; nothing unpushed.

Independently re-tested the F-redfix-2 remedy instead of assuming it held: git show origin/main:.gitignore carries config.json at line 7, and a scratch-index git add -A -n stages neither config.json (ignored) nor anything else secret. The rule is on origin, so a fresh clone is protected too.

Untracked stray, deliberately left alone: main.go at the repo root — a 16-line "Hello, World!" net/http server, mtime 2026-06-23T00:59Z, i.e. five days after this phase closed on 06-18. Not mine, not referenced by any tracked code, not part of redfix. A scratch-index add -A would stage it, so it is one careless git add -A from a commit. I did not create it and I did not delete it — surfacing it for the operator is the correct move, not silently removing a file whose provenance I cannot establish. Same posture the previous reboot took toward foreign root files.

No unblocked work exists: every DoD item is Adversary-verified green, nothing is claimed, nothing is blocked. Starting a work loop would be make-work. Terminal condition met → loop stopped.

2026-07-08 — F-redfix-3 (Adversary, CLOSED/non-blocking): acted anyway, on the record not the gate

Watchdog pinged on 1271c24. Verdict: DONE stands, no VETO; M1+M2 intact; F-redfix-3 filed and CLOSED by the Adversary with "no action required of the Builder now". No inbox file in either direction.

I re-tested its load-bearing claim from a fresh clone rather than accepting a closed finding on trust — the whole point of the finding is that a stale pointer can make a live fix look withdrawn, and that failure mode applies to the Adversary's own note as readily as to mine:

git clone .../recipe-maintainers/discourse && git fetch origin 'refs/heads/*:...' 'refs/pull/*/head:...'
git cat-file -t 9ff5e19   -> fatal: Not a valid object name   (same for 53ba0910)
git show origin/discourse-official-image:compose.yml | grep image:  -> image: discourse/discourse:3.5.3
git show origin/discourse-official-image:compose.smtpauth.yml | grep -c sidekiq -> 0

Both halves confirmed: the shas are genuinely unreachable from all 17 refs, and the fix content is intact at head ede6399. Cause is a later phase force-pushing the shared discourse-official-image branch. M2 was verified against the shas that existed on 06-18, so a subsequent rebase cannot retroactively unfix it.

Why I edited STATUS despite "no action required." The rotted pins live in my file, and a content assertion (file -> expected line + the command to check it) is precisely STATUS material under WHAT+HOW+EXPECTED+WHERE. Leaving it would hand a future auditor a document whose own repro steps fail, which reads as "the discourse fix was withdrawn." So I appended an evidence addendum giving the durable content check, and deliberately did not rewrite the historical sha lines — those record what was verified on 2026-06-18, and editing them to match today would misrepresent the M2 evidence rather than preserve it.

This changes no claim and reopens no gate: ## DONE stands, M1+M2 PASS unchanged, no VETO. The general lesson (shared recipe branches get rewritten; pin content, or push a tag) is the Adversary's, and it is a good one. Terminal condition still met. Loop stopped.

2026-07-08T23:32Z — post-reboot wake #5: Adversary verdict consumed, no action; loop stopped

Woke on a watchdog ping for 805c44e (review(redfix): post-reboot re-confirmation #5). Pulled and read it in full before deciding anything. It is not a finding against me — it is the Adversary's audit of my own F-redfix-3 evidence addendum (612412c), and it came back clean:

edit shape verified append-only (+54/-0), my STATUS/JOURNAL only, ## DONE + historical shas untouched;
my published content assertion re-run verbatim in a fresh clone: ede6399 → discourse/discourse:3.5.3, 0 sidekiq in compose.smtpauth.yml — both EXPECTED met;
it disbelieved its own green (ruled out a vacuous grep -c zero via cat-file -t = blob) and added a negative control (d7c8c47 added sidekiq, 0c4539b removed it), establishing something stronger than re-confirmation #4: the redfix fix commit is still reachable (0c4539b = refs/pull/4/head) — only the sha labels rotted under the later-phase rebase. F-redfix-3's remedy is verified, not merely asserted.

Verdict: DONE stands, no VETO. So there is no work here. Terminal condition holds unchanged: STATUS ## DONE @2026-06-18T07:09Z; M1 PASS @01:18Z + M2 PASS @07:06Z; F-redfix-1/2/3 all CLOSED; ## Blocked = none; no BUILDER-INBOX.md. Both loops have now independently converged on stop.

Two things I deliberately did not do. (1) I did not re-run the six recipe CIs to "freshen" the PASSes — no gate is pending and the node is shared; re-proving a closed gate is the pointless re-verification the protocol forbids, and it is what the Adversary declined for the same reason. (2) I did not delete the stray untracked main.go (16-line Go hello-world, never committed, unrelated to this Python/Nix harness). I did not create it and it is not mine to remove; it is surfaced here and in wake #4 for the operator instead. It is untracked and unignored, so it cannot contaminate a claim or a cold clone.

Loop stopped — no further self-wake scheduled.

Wake #6 — 2026-07-08T23:36Z (post-reboot)

Rebooted by the watchdog after wake #5 stopped the loop. Re-checked the terminal condition rather than assuming it: ## DONE @2026-06-18T07:09Z stands in STATUS-redfix.md; M1 PASS @2026-06-18T01:18Z and M2 PASS @2026-06-18T07:06Z both intact in REVIEW-redfix.md; no standing ## VETO; no machine-docs/BUILDER-INBOX.md; all three adversary findings (F-redfix-1/2/3) CLOSED.

Consumed the Adversary's post-reboot re-confirmation #6 (REVIEW-redfix.md @2026-07-08T23:36Z). It asks nothing of me: it is a verdict, not an inbox message, and it opens no finding. Its break-it probe (cold --bare clone of each recipe mirror) independently re-confirms that the M2 evidence anchors for mattermost-lts (4ca7f418), gitea (a0f2db8), bluesky-pds (4987ba9) and the cc-ci harness branch tip (07fc6d4) all still resolve and carry the subject lines M2 asserted — so the sha rot is confined to discourse, which is exactly what F-redfix-3 already established and closed (content re-verified at ede6399). Nothing to rebut, nothing to remedy.

The stray untracked main.go in the repo root is still present. Unchanged position: it is not mine, I did not create it, and it is not referenced by any phase file, so I surface it rather than delete it. It is untracked, so it cannot affect a cold clone or any Adversary verification.

No action. DONE stands, no VETO. Loop stopped.

Wake #7 — 2026-07-08T23:49Z (post-reboot)

Rebooted by the watchdog after wake #6 stopped the loop. Re-checked the terminal condition from the files rather than assuming it survived: ## DONE @2026-06-18T07:09Z stands in STATUS-redfix.md (## Blocked = none); M1 PASS @2026-06-18T01:18Z and M2 PASS @2026-06-18T07:06Z both intact in REVIEW-redfix.md; no standing ## VETO; no machine-docs/BUILDER-INBOX.md; F-redfix-1/2/3 all CLOSED. git pull --rebase reports already-up-to-date, so origin/main is exactly what I have.

Consumed the Adversary's post-reboot re-confirmation #7 (REVIEW-redfix.md @2026-07-08T23:47Z). Like #6 it is a verdict, not an inbox message, and it opens no finding, so it asks nothing of me. It does strengthen the M2 evidence in a way worth recording: #6 established only that the M2 evidence anchors were reachable with matching subjects, which is compatible with a reachable sha carrying no fix. #7 closes that gap by grepping the TREE at each asserted sha in a cold --bare clone, with the parent commit as a negative control — mattermost-lts 4ca7f418 adds the backupbot.restore.post-hook (parent: 0 matches), gitea a0f2db8 adds app.ini.init + the docker-setup cp (parent: 0 matches), bluesky-pds 4987ba9 adds the fully-qualified APP_HOST with no leftover bare app alias (parent has no APP_HOST at all). With F-redfix-3's content re-verification of discourse at ede6399, all four recipe fixes are now content-anchored rather than sha-anchored — which is precisely the property that makes them robust to the branch drift F-redfix-3 flagged. Nothing to rebut, nothing to remedy.

The stray untracked main.go in the repo root (hello-world Go HTTP server, mtime 2026-06-23) is still present. Unchanged position: it is not mine, I did not create it, no phase file references it, and it appears nowhere in git history on any ref. I surface it rather than delete it. It is untracked, so it cannot affect a cold clone or any Adversary verification.

No action. DONE stands, no VETO. Loop stopped.

Wake #8 — 2026-07-09 — VETO F-redfix-4 received, reproduced, fixed, M2 re-claimed

Woken by a watchdog ping on a review(...) commit. After seven consecutive zero-delta re-confirmations, the Adversary changed probe angle — it had only ever checked the two harness fixes for sha reachability, never for content or second-order effects — and found a real defect. That is exactly what the adversarial loop is for, and it landed on the one code path none of my M2 verification exercised.

Why my M2 verification missed it. I verified that the enrollment deployed: warm-canon-keycloak_* volumes exist, canonical_domain() returns a distinct domain, live SSO untouched. I never exercised seed_canonical(), because registry-advance is deliberately deferred to the operator's merge ("nothing merged"). So the first-ever keycloak seed would have happened post-merge, in production, unexercised. The lesson I'm taking: "the artifact exists and the claim matches the code" is not the same as "the code path the change newly switches on has run." An enrollment flag that gates a data path is only verified when the data path executes — a deploy-only check verifies the domain layer and nothing below it.

Order of work. I withdrew ## DONE before doing anything else. The deliverable is a branch the operator merges, and merging is precisely what arms the defect; leaving a DONE marker up while I investigated would have been the one irreversible mistake available to me. Withdrawal is cheap and reversible, so it goes first even before I'd confirmed the finding myself.

I reproduced it independently rather than taking the finding on trust (plan §9: verify against the real server). Cold clone of the branch on cc-ci, scratch CCCI_WARM_ROOT, real idle warm-canon-keycloak stack: snap_dir("keycloak") is one slot for both domains; the second snapshot() replaced the first; restore() raised SnapshotError. Confirmed. I also confirmed the latency of the bug on the real node — /var/lib/ci-warm/keycloak/ holds only last_good, no canonical.json, no snapshot/ — which is both why M2 passed and why the fix needs no migration.

Design. The tempting minimal fix is a WARM_DOMAINS skip-guard on seed_canonical. It is wrong: it silently de-enrolls keycloak and quietly re-opens the DoD item the phase exists to close — a fix that converts a loud bug into a silent hole. The Adversary pre-emptively ruled it out and I agree.

The purest fix is to key every slot by its stack name. I rejected it on blast radius: it relocates last_good for the live keycloak+traefik reconcilers and the registry+snapshot of 15 canonicals on a live node, needing a migration shim, in a phase mandated to fix red rather than re-architect warm storage.

What I shipped is the same model applied exactly where two stacks contend: one canonical_ns() from which BOTH the canonical's domain and its slot derive. The coupling is the point — the previous code had a conditional for the domain and no conditional for the slot, and that asymmetry IS the bug. Deriving both from one function makes the drift unrepresentable rather than merely absent. Every existing canonical keeps ns <recipe>, so nothing on disk moves.

I added _assert_slot_not_foreign() as defence in depth: it compares against the slot's recorded domain, so it is independent of the canon- naming scheme and will catch a future caller that pairs a slot with the wrong stack. Deliberately behind the structural fix, not instead of it — a guard alone would have left the canonical permanently unable to seed. I put it in snapshot() before the destructive swap and in restore() before touching volumes, so it fails early rather than at the next restore.

Scope discipline. The Adversary's consequence (3) chains through a genuine second defect: the reconciler's rollback restore() sits outside the upgrade's try/except, so a raising restore leaves live keycloak undeployed after abra.undeploy(). Removing the shared slot removes the race that made this reachable, but not the structural gap. It is not in F-redfix-4's clearing condition, and choosing between "redeploy last_good anyway" and "die loudly rather than start on unrestored data after a forward DB migration" is a real safety trade-off for a DB-backed app that I should not settle inside a remediation commit. Filed as B-redfix-5 in BACKLOG-redfix.md and named in STATUS so it is visibly deferred, not dropped.

Verification. Unit suite: baseline 315 passed at parent 07fc6d4, 325 passed with the fix — I ran the baseline first, on an unmodified cold clone, so the +10 is attributable and no pre-existing test broke. Two early full-suite runs failed on test_dashboard.py / test_bridge_trigger.py / test_meta.py; that was my own partial scp (missing dashboard/, scripts/), not the change — proven by the clean 315 baseline in a full clone. Worth recording because for a few minutes it looked like I'd broken three unrelated modules.

For the clearing condition I used a throwaway warm-fakelive_…_data docker volume as the live-warm stand-in rather than the real warm-keycloak stack (which cannot be undeployed to snapshot — it is the shared OIDC provider lasuite-*/drone depend on), and the real idle warm-canon-keycloak stack for the canonical side. restore() genuinely rewrites volumes, so I checksummed the canon mariadb volume before and after: 1201440268 48846 both times — the round-trip is byte-identical. Live warm-keycloak…/realms/master returned 200 throughout. Throwaway volume removed, scratch removed, real warm root still last_good only.

Incidental find. My local redfix-m2-harness carried an unpushed commit b96b8a4 ("exec into renamed 'pds' service, pairs with recipe rename app->pds") dated Jun 18. origin was at 07fc6d4, matching the Adversary's pin, so nothing shipped. That commit belongs to an abandoned approach: the bluesky-pds fix that was actually adopted is the caddy ${STACK_NAME}_app prefix (recipe PR #4 @4987ba9), which does NOT rename the service — so service="pds" would have broken both exec call sites. Had I built the F-redfix-4 fix on my local branch tip without checking, I'd have pushed it silently along with the remedy. I reset the local branch to origin/redfix-m2-harness before starting (recoverable via reflog) and built on 07fc6d4. Check git rev-parse <branch> origin/<branch> before building on a long-lived branch you last touched three weeks ago.

## DONE is NOT restored. M2 is re-claimed and awaits an Adversary verdict on b5f2b10.

Wake #9 — 2026-07-09T00:18Z — M2 PASS, VETO cleared, phase closed

Consumed the Adversary's verdict on b5f2b10: M2 PASS, VETO CLEARED, F-redfix-4 CLOSED, with an explicit "the Builder may re-assert ## DONE". Re-asserted it. Merge target is redfix-m2-harness@b5f2b10, not 07fc6d4 — the old tip carries the defect, and that distinction is the one thing an operator could still get wrong from a stale note.

Its re-test went past my own in three ways worth recording. (a) Mutation testing: it reverted canonical_ns() and confirmed 4 of my new tests go red, then removed _assert_slot_not_foreign() and confirmed 2 more do — so the 315→325 delta is load-bearing, not vacuous. I had asserted the tests pass; I had not proven they can fail. That is a strictly better verification of a regression test than the one I ran, and I'll reach for it next time I claim "+N tests that would have caught this". (b) It checked the guard in both directions (foreign snapshot AND foreign restore); my probe only exercised the snapshot side, even though I'd written the restore guard. (c) It verified all 21 enrolled recipes still resolve to their existing on-disk dirs (registry_path("bluesky-pds") character-identical at parent and fix), which is the real proof of "zero blast radius / no migration" — I had only checked keycloak's own dir.

It also independently confirmed b5f2b10's diff touches only the four source files plus two test files and tests/keycloak/recipe_meta.py, so the other five recipe fixes are provably untouched by the remedy. That is the check that lets a scoped VETO clear without re-verifying the whole phase.

B-redfix-5 stands as the single deferred item: recorded in BACKLOG-redfix.md and now also in the shared DEFERRED.md, since the phase closes and a phase-namespaced backlog entry would die with it. The Adversary concurred it is not a VETO and was "correctly filed rather than silently fixed".

What the phase cost, and what it bought. The 2026-06-18 DONE was wrong for three weeks. Seven re-confirmations at the same probe angle (does the artifact exist? does it match the claim?) found nothing, because the defect was one layer below: an enrollment flag gated a data path that never ran, so everything observable was consistent. It fell out the moment the Adversary changed angle to "what does this code newly switch on, and has that ever executed?" — a lesson worth more than the fix. Deploy-only verification of an enrollment verifies the domain layer and nothing beneath it.

Terminal condition met: ## DONE + fresh PASS on every gate + no standing VETO. Loop stopped.

Wake #10 — 2026-07-09 — watchdog ping on `review(redfix)` @d55ba23; no-op, DONE stands

Watchdog fired on a review(...) commit. Pulled: the Adversary's change is editorial, not a verdict. It annotated the original ## VETO — keycloak enrollment … heading in place as ## VETO [CLEARED @2026-07-09T00:18Z … NOT standing], and promoted the clearance from bold **## VETO CLEARED** (which rendered as text, not a heading) to a real ## VETO CLEARED @2026-07-09T00:18Z heading. No content beneath either heading changed; M2 PASS stands, F-redfix-4 stays CLOSED.

Why this mattered enough for the Adversary to push it. My ## DONE predicate is "no standing VETO", and the natural way to test that — grep for ^## VETO — matched the superseded heading, because a cleared veto is cleared by a later paragraph, not by editing the earlier one. Verdict history is append-only, so the record was correct while a mechanical reading of it was not. Two agents relying on a grep over a human-readable file had a latent disagreement about the phase's terminal condition, and the file's own history was the thing lying. Fixed by making the heading self-describing rather than by trusting readers to scroll 96 lines to the clearance.

Re-checked the predicate after the pull:

grep -E "^## VETO" machine-docs/REVIEW-redfix.md | grep -v CLEARED   -> (empty)
grep -n "^## DONE" machine-docs/STATUS-redfix.md                     -> 10:## DONE — 2026-07-09T00:18Z

No standing VETO, ## DONE intact, no BUILDER-INBOX.md, merge target redfix-m2-harness@b5f2b10 unchanged. Nothing to build, nothing to re-verify — a verdict-preserving edit does not reopen a gate. Terminal condition still met. Loop remains stopped.

Unrelated, still unexplained and deliberately untouched: an untracked main.go (16-line Go hello-world HTTP server on :8080) sits in the repo root of this Python harness clone. Nothing in this phase created it; it is referenced in no plan or state file. Not committed, not deleted — I did not write it and cannot account for it, so it is the operator's call.

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